Arbroath - League Cup

[tm4tj]

Group D Also Rans

 

Fellow Championship drop-outs Arbroath head North on Tuesday night for what looks likely to be a dead rubber with both sides off the pace in Group D of this seasons League Cup. With Annan Athletic sitting top of the group on 7 points, one ahead of Dundee, it will take a brave man to predict that either Inverness or Arbroath can scrape into the knockout stages of the competition. Some promising performances from the young guns on Saturday and a repeat of that would be pleasing, but let's not forget that Arbroath will be a step up in level from Bonnyrigg. It may also lay down a marker for the League campaign but both squads might be reduced in numbers with so little at stake.

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Match/Ticket Info

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Tonights game is somewhat insignificant after the news of Johndo's passing. It is with great sadness that one of our long term Caley and then Inverness CT supporters has passed away. Johndo Mackenzie, or as most of us on CTO knew him as Immortal Howden Ender, suffered a heart attack this morning after a couple of recent scares. Scotty has put a lovely tribute on the CTO site where we can all pay our respects. Rest in peace my friend, you were one of a kind, and although you may have 'moved on', you will always be Immortal to those that knew you.

 

Here's the Group D Table ahead of Tuesday nights fixtures.

Fixtures Tonight (Tuesday 7:45pm)

• Inverness CT v Arbroath
• Dundee v Annan Athletic

Fixtures on Saturday (3:00pm)

• Bonnyrigg v Arbroath 
• Dundee v Inverness CT (@ Brechin)

Dundee as you would have expected beat Arbroath 2-0. However the Smokies suffered a shock 3-0 home reverse against Annan last Saturday having being reduced to ten men (Scott Stewart 42') whilst we were beating Bonnyrigg 3-0 after a slick first half display. We lost our opening fixture 1-0 at Annan which, although not impossible, makes it highly unlikely that we will progress given our final fixture is away to Dundee at Brechin. Our goals against Rose were well taken by Adam Brooks, Keith Bray and Luis Longstaff. Arbroath have failed to score in their two fixtures.

Arbroath have also made big changes after dropping out of the Chamoionship. Jim McIntyre is still the manager.

In: Jack Wilkie, defender (Dundee); Layton Bisland, defender (Dundee United); Calum Gallagher, forward (Airdrieonians); Robbie Hemfrey, goalkeeper (Airdrieonians); Gavin Reilly, forward (Queen of the South); Liam Callaghan, midfielder (Montrose).

Out: Scott Allan, midfielder (Kelty Hearts); Michael McKenna, midfielder (Falkirk); Zak Delaney, defender (Greenock Morton); Kyle Robinson, forward (Athlone Town); Leighton McIntosh, forward (Queen of the South); Jay Bird, forward (Exeter City); Derek Gaston, goalkeeper (Stirling Albion); Darren Lyon, midfielder (Clyde); Jess Norey, midfielder (East Fife); Ally Adams, goalkeeper (East Fife); Keaghan Jacobs, midfielder (Gala Fairydean Athletic); Ricky Little, defender (Beith); Kenan Dünnwald-Turan, midfielder.

Loan ended: Max Boruc, goalkeeper (Hibernian); Adam Mackinnon, midfielder (Ross County); Charlie Reilly, midfielder (Dundee); Connor Teale, defender (Fleetwood Town).

This was Arbroath's starting XI against Annan Athletic on Saturday. Gavin Reilly & Calum Gallagher missed out through injury and Colin Hamilton went off injured after 20' to be replaced by Stowe. Scott Stewart was red carded and will be suspended for the visit to Inverness.

Jim McIntyre was no a happy chappy after the defeat to Annan. He felt they were poor in the final third, the final pass was poor and they lacked quality. Sounds familiar. "What positives can you take from this afternoon Jim?" Jim replied: "Not a lot".

 

For Inverness, Danny Devine took a hip knock on Saturday and is a major doubt. Ethan Cairns has been out injured and Lewis Nicolson is still recovering. Ferguson is hinting that our time is probably over in the League Cup and therefore we may be fielding a pretty young side. With that in mind and despite our financial predicament, £18 for a ticket seems a bit steep given the liklihood of a reduced squad full of upcoming youngsters.

 

 

 

[The Mantis]

That's some clearout - on a par with our own. Still got Tam O'Brien and Ryan Dow - decent players. Only McKenna and Delaney staying in the Championship and the others dropping down. Whatever happened to Scott Allan's career

[tm4tj]

 

[bdu98196]

5 hours ago, The Mantis said:

. Whatever happened to Scott Allan's career

Combination of over hyped, injury prone and falling victim to joining the OF not because they wanted his talents bit to weaken opposition teams leaving him rotting away in hid prime years. Sure there's plenty others with similar trajectories sadly.

[The Mantis]

23 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:

Combination of over hyped, injury prone and falling victim to joining the OF not because they wanted his talents bit to weaken opposition teams leaving him rotting away in hid prime years. Sure there's plenty others with similar trajectories sadly.

Agreed, it was a rhetorical question really.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

If anyone can contact the powers-that-be, a round of applause - NOT silence! - for Johndo tonight would be a gracious gesture.

[tm4tj]

[Jack Waddington]

Layby attendance has quadrupled from Saturday

[bishbashbosh]

23 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

Layby attendance has quadrupled from Saturday

Sorry jack, couldn’t make it tonight so no photo.

[ICTPaisley]

2 hours ago, tm4tj said:

Average age of 19.63

[Jack Waddington]

Scot Gardiner waffling with the attendance again ffs

[ICTPaisley]

4 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

Scot Gardiner waffling with the attendance again ffs

I didn’t realise Scot has been with us for the 20 odd years that I can remember attendances being exaggerated. 

[+CaleyHedgehog]

2 hours ago, Jack Waddington said:

Layby attendance has quadrupled from Saturday

Sorry Jack, too busy with my Belladrum preparation to get there tonight - there may not be a space left for me to open my Werthers' flamboyantly at the layby, by the time I put in an appearance. Shame it didn't go our way too.

[tm4tj]

 

 

[Robert]

I made a late decision to attend.

A draw was a fair result with few clear chances for both teams.

I felt we were mainly 3/5 at the back with Bray and Strachan as wing backs in a first half of few clear chances.

MacLeod was my pick in the first half, closely followed by Strachan.

It’s good to see reports that Walker is ok as it looked a bad one and you never like seeing anyone stretchered off.

We changed to a 4 after his injury with Gilmour in front of the back 4.

In the second half, Bray was the pick with some good runs down the right and good crosses. Longstaff saw a lot of the ball, and Savage got forward menacingly a few times.

The stand side linesman wrongly flagged in our best move which had Mckay one on one with the ‘keeper.

Arbroath ended with 10 due to injuries and adopted a 9 0 0 formation which we just couldn’t play though.

The teams were pretty even. Some of our passing was very good but we just didn’t have an end product once again.

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

Agree with Robert. MacLeod looking very promising as indeed were all the Fergie Fledglings. Bray certainly stood out in the second half. Hope we get positive news on Walker today.

Notice Roddy scored two more last night - guess we have to bury the past.  We will not forget nor forgive.

Dundee is basically a training exercise with the focus on Dumbarton. That is now two home games where the players have had great support. Let's hope we get news soon on what is happening behind the scenes. 

[tm4tj]

For what it's worth, here's Dunc on a sombre night for the fans

 

[davie]

21 hours ago, bishbashbosh said:

Sorry jack, couldn’t make it tonight so no photo.

Here y,are zoom in a bit.... and 

[Yngwie]

I see that the penalty were taken by our most experienced players - Mckay, Savage, Gilmour and Longstaff. Did anyone notice who was due to take the 5th?

[IBM]

41 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

I see that the penalty were taken by our most experienced players - Mckay, Savage, Gilmour and Longstaff. Did anyone notice who was due to take the 5th?

No Yngwie I did not but the one thing I did notice was that Arbroath must have spent a lot of time practicing theirs as they were all excellent.

[+CaleyHedgehog]

On 7/24/2024 at 5:18 PM, davie said:

Here y,are zoom in a bit.... and 

Well done Jack and Co - I salute your stance on this.